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As the result of a partnership with Big Y, a family-owned food retail company with stores across Western Massachusetts, schools in Berkshire County received 1,000 new books for school and classroom libraries. The six elementary schools benefiting from this generous donation included Silvio O. Conte Community School, Morningside Community School and Crosby Elementary in Pittsfield and Brayton Elementary, Greylock Elementary and Colegrove Park Elementary in North Adams.

On April 10th Link to Libraries held its biennial gala at the Log Cabin in Holyoke. The events theme of "Once Upon a Time" tied in perfectly with the non-profit's mission of getting the fascinating world of books and literature into the hands of local youth.

Laurie Flynn says it’s not often that one gets to make their passion their profession. And it was the opportunity to do just that which prompted her to put aside a budding marketing business she co-founded a few years ago and become president and CEO of Link to Libraries (LTL), the decade-old nonprofit that, as the name suggests, puts books on the shelves of school libraries and other agencies and promotes childhood literacy on many levels.

The largest regional distributor of books to underserved youth in Western Massachusetts has a new president and CEO: Laurie S. Flynn took the helm of Link to Libraries late last month from co-founder Susan Jaye-Kaplan, who had served as president since the nonprofit was founded in 2008.

For the fifth year in a row, Monson Savings Bank asked the community to help plan the bank's community-giving activities by inviting people to vote for the organizations they would like the bank to support during 2015.

For the fifth year in a row, Monson Savings Bank asked the community to help plan the bank's community-giving activities by inviting people to vote for the organizations they would like the bank to support during 2015.

Link To Libraries is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in May 2008, whose mission is to collect and distribute new and gently used books to elementary school libraries and non-profit organizations and to enhance the language and literacy skills of children of all cultural backgrounds.